.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 326 192
Rank change year-on-year +106 -134 -43
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 789 379 1,024
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.86% 0.87% 1.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.29% 4.89% 7.48%
Number of salaries quoted 745 330 877
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £84,688 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,521 7,743 13,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.36% 17.76% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 7,182 5,195 10,373
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,050 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,000 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 4 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +113 204 £55,000 +4.76% 60
North of England +37 174 £55,000 -8.33% 43
East of England +65 117 £60,000 +9.09% 22
Midlands +29 108 £55,000 -8.33% 25
London -101 98 £80,000 - 69
South West +3 85 £52,500 +5.00% 9
North East +7 72 £65,000 +33.33% 10
North West -2 67 £50,000 -16.67% 22
West Midlands +6 64 £55,000 -8.33% 15
East Midlands +13 44 £55,000 +4.76% 10
Yorkshire -16 35 £50,000 -16.67% 12
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 23 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.14%) IIS
3 7 (0.89%) CMS
3 7 (0.89%) Confluence
4 4 (0.51%) Sitecore CMS
4 4 (0.51%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.38%) DNN
5 3 (0.38%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.38%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.38%) Kentico
5 3 (0.38%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Magento
1 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.25%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 640 (81.12%) Azure
2 215 (27.25%) Azure DevOps
3 152 (19.26%) GitHub
4 135 (17.11%) AWS
4 135 (17.11%) GitHub Copilot
5 134 (16.98%) Azure AI
6 72 (9.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 49 (6.21%) Azure Logic Apps
8 45 (5.70%) Power Platform
9 33 (4.18%) SaaS
10 30 (3.80%) Power Automate
11 28 (3.55%) Azure Service Bus
12 27 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
12 27 (3.42%) PowerApps
13 23 (2.92%) Serverless
14 20 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
14 20 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (2.41%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 19 (2.41%) OneDrive
16 17 (2.15%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.83%) Internet
2 7 (0.89%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.38%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.25%) Firewall
5 1 (0.13%) HTTP
5 1 (0.13%) Modbus
5 1 (0.13%) Network Security
5 1 (0.13%) SSL
5 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 449 (56.91%) Azure SQL Database
2 373 (47.28%) MongoDB
3 150 (19.01%) Elasticsearch
4 147 (18.63%) SQL Server
5 37 (4.69%) Power BI
6 18 (2.28%) MySQL
7 17 (2.15%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (1.39%) NonStop SQL
9 11 (1.39%) NoSQL
10 10 (1.27%) Redis
11 8 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (0.89%) GIS
12 7 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.38%) ZAP BI
15 2 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
15 2 (0.25%) MariaDB
16 1 (0.13%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 58 (7.35%) Git
2 15 (1.90%) JIRA
3 10 (1.27%) GitLab
4 9 (1.14%) NUnit
5 7 (0.89%) Cypress.io
5 7 (0.89%) MSI
6 6 (0.76%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.63%) Postman
7 5 (0.63%) Snyk
8 4 (0.51%) Selenium
8 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.38%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.38%) JUnit
9 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.38%) Vite
10 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.25%) webpack
11 1 (0.13%) MSTest
11 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 113 (14.32%) Finance
2 72 (9.13%) Social Skills
3 57 (7.22%) Advertising
4 46 (5.83%) Games
5 41 (5.20%) Marketing
6 34 (4.31%) Retail
7 22 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (2.15%) Law
10 16 (2.03%) Banking
11 15 (1.90%) Public Sector
12 14 (1.77%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.39%) Music Industry
14 9 (1.14%) Automotive
15 8 (1.01%) Legal
16 7 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.63%) Front Office
17 5 (0.63%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.51%) Back Office
18 4 (0.51%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 665 (84.28%) Developer
2 526 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 104 (13.18%) Senior
4 95 (12.04%) Software Developer
5 68 (8.62%) Senior Developer
6 58 (7.35%) C# Developer
7 54 (6.84%) Lead
8 46 (5.83%) C# .NET Developer
9 39 (4.94%) Software Engineer
10 38 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
11 33 (4.18%) Lead Developer
12 27 (3.42%) .NET Software Developer
13 25 (3.17%) Senior Software Developer
14 22 (2.79%) .NET Software Engineer
15 20 (2.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 19 (2.41%) C# Software Developer
16 19 (2.41%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 19 (2.41%) Senior .NET Developer
17 18 (2.28%) Senior C# Developer
18 16 (2.03%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 789 (100.00%) .NET
2 510 (64.64%) ASP.NET
3 445 (56.40%) ASP.NET Core
4 229 (29.02%) HTML
5 227 (28.77%) CSS
6 215 (27.25%) Entity Framework
7 210 (26.62%) Blazor
8 199 (25.22%) React
9 184 (23.32%) RESTful
10 183 (23.19%) AngularJS
11 174 (22.05%) Vue
12 172 (21.80%) ASP.NET Web API
13 158 (20.03%) Node.js
14 137 (17.36%) .NET Framework
15 134 (16.98%) ML.NET
16 108 (13.69%) LINQ
17 69 (8.75%) REST
18 45 (5.70%) JSON
19 37 (4.69%) WPF
20 23 (2.92%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 87 (11.03%) Greenfield Project
2 61 (7.73%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (2.66%) Cloud Native
4 20 (2.53%) Digital TV
5 19 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (2.41%) Mobile App
6 17 (2.15%) iPhone
7 14 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (1.65%) Product Ownership
8 13 (1.65%) Sports Betting
9 12 (1.52%) Social Network
10 11 (1.39%) BBC
10 11 (1.39%) Hedge funds
10 11 (1.39%) Social Media
11 9 (1.14%) Low-Code
11 9 (1.14%) Onboarding
12 7 (0.89%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.89%) Client/Server
12 7 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
13 6 (0.76%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.41%) Windows
2 17 (2.15%) Android
3 8 (1.01%) VMS
4 3 (0.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (66.54%) Full-Stack Development
2 411 (52.09%) Agile
3 261 (33.08%) CI/CD
4 257 (32.57%) DevOps
5 206 (26.11%) Microservices
6 163 (20.66%) AI
7 154 (19.52%) Machine Learning
8 146 (18.50%) Multithreading
9 95 (12.04%) Scrum
10 94 (11.91%) Software Engineering
11 83 (10.52%) OO
12 82 (10.39%) TDD
13 68 (8.62%) BDD
14 63 (7.98%) User Experience
15 60 (7.60%) Kanban
16 58 (7.35%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
17 51 (6.46%) SDLC
18 49 (6.21%) Business Intelligence
19 48 (6.08%) MVC
20 47 (5.96%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 740 (93.79%) C#
2 528 (66.92%) SQL
3 255 (32.32%) JavaScript
4 213 (27.00%) TypeScript
5 33 (4.18%) PowerShell
6 25 (3.17%) Python
7 14 (1.77%) T-SQL
8 10 (1.27%) Java
9 7 (0.89%) Bicep
9 7 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.51%) Bash
10 4 (0.51%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.51%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.38%) Go
11 3 (0.38%) VBA
12 2 (0.25%) PHP
13 1 (0.13%) C
13 1 (0.13%) C++
13 1 (0.13%) Delphi
13 1 (0.13%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 58 (7.35%) Degree
2 23 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (2.53%) Security Cleared
4 18 (2.28%) SC Cleared
5 7 (0.89%) Master's Degree
6 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.38%) OCP
7 3 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.25%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.25%) ICAEW
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.42%) QA
2 25 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.01%) WCAG
4 7 (0.89%) NCSC
5 3 (0.38%) GDPR
5 3 (0.38%) NIST
6 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.13%) ITGC
7 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 196 (24.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 178 (22.56%) Kubernetes
2 24 (3.04%) Terraform
3 3 (0.38%) Ansible
3 3 (0.38%) Grafana
3 3 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 521 (66.03%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.72%) Facebook
3 44 (5.58%) Google
4 21 (2.66%) YouTube
5 19 (2.41%) Adobe
6 11 (1.39%) Apple
6 11 (1.39%) Sony
6 11 (1.39%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.76%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.63%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.51%) Sitecore
9 4 (0.51%) Workday
10 3 (0.38%) Alterian
10 3 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.38%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.38%) Splunk
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle
12 1 (0.13%) IBM
12 1 (0.13%) Sage
12 1 (0.13%) Salesforce